Study of neutral-charged particle correlations in high energy collisions

Recent experiments at Serpukhov, NAL, and CERN indicate a strong correlation between neutral and charged pions produced in high energy collisions, in contrast to the trend shown by data at lower energies. This study of the energy and charge dependence of these correlations indicates that they do not depend upon the initial state particles and that they are in reasonable agreement with the critical fluid gas model. These high energy correlation data are also studied in terms of a semi-inclusive Koba- Nielsen-Olesen scaling relation. (9 refs).